Monday.COME “Internet and Social Movement”

Beifeng, originally named Wen Yunchao, is a Guangdong-Hakka journalist living in Hong Kong. Shuttling back and forth between media and new media in the Mainland for years, North Wind has gained his reputation as a renowned blogger who focuses on investigating China’s censorship on the Internet. He has made common new media platforms, and used such platforms to initiate social movements. He was awarded the French Republic’s Human Rights Prize in 2010.

For our first Monday.COME of the school year, we are honored to have Beifeng to share with us his years of experience and realization with social media and social movements. His recent social movements through the Internet include demanding investigation into the list of victims in the Beijing storm and the Tianjin fire, and calling for the public to sign the petition for an urgent demand for serious investigation into the truth behind Li Wangyang’s death.

Topic: Internet and Social Movement
Date: 24 September 2012 (Monday)
Time: 12:30pm – 2:00pm
Venue: NAH 312
Speaker: Beifeng (Wen Yun-chao)
Host: Prof. Jack Qiu (Associate Professor, School of Journalism and Communication)
Language: Putonghua (Cantonese and English can be used in discussion)
Lunch: HK$10 (The School and GPA Department subsidize the remainder. Lunch is provided for REGISTERED participants only.)
Notes: Monday.COME is open to students and staff of the Chinese University of Hong Kong only and is closed to the press.